Banger Blue on TV

BBC North did a very brief feature on tonight's local news on this weekend's Manchester Model Railway Club's exhibition.

What made it surprising is that it featured the MMRC's own layout, Dewsbury Midland, which is running in 70s diesel mode for this show. Usually if anything model railway related gets anywhere near the telly the TV producers always make a bee-line for the big kettle layouts. For the old Westminster Central Hall shows (remember them?) it was always the Gauge 1 live steam. But not this time. TV viewers were treated to blue liveried Peaks, 40s and HSTs.

Does this mean that D&E modelling has finally come of age?

Posted by TimHall at September 29, 2006 09:43 PM

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